The impacts of forest degradation on medicinal plant use and implications for health care in Eastern Amazonia
Over the last three decades, forest degradation in the Brazilian Amazon has diminished the availability of some widely used medicinal plant species. Results of a 9-year market study suggest that forests represent an important habitat for medicinal plants used in eastern Amazonia: Nine of the twelve...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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2003
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/18690 |
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